Exploring the Concept of 'Him-Bros' and Asian Masculinity

Speaker 3
Or if you know a himbo. You know any him bros. Yeah.
Speaker 2
If this conversation is if you're a himbo but this conversation is helping you like realize that you are. Yeah. Self actualizing. Yeah. Maybe this is your moment.
Speaker 1
This is your moment. A lot of Asian dudes will want to try to do this. You know I mean to get all racial on you. It's like you want to like react so strongly to the thing that people would perceive you. Like you know like you were saying with your superlatives it's like if you how do you react to somebody saying oh you're going to be you know this whatever scientist or something. It's either you lean into it hard or you like go with the all totally the other way and you're hitting the steroids and you're just like I need to do the opposite and like work on this oil rig or whatever the fuck it is. Yeah. You know. I could see that being like a pathway especially for Asian American dudes because I feel like Asian men have a different kind of masculinity where it's like we're chain smoking all the time and whatever doing something else. There's not like a like a himbo thing in Asia necessarily. Like like you think about like the beautiful Korean men coming out of Korea. They're not looking like that. They're looking a little different. Yeah.
Speaker 2
Yeah. Yeah. No I think I totally agree and I think that's why like we see Charles Melton and Henry Golding as the Asian hymn bros because they are half white so they're like oh yeah. They're like merging into that stereotype a little more. Yeah. It would be weird if you went to the gym and you saw like a fully like Chinese man who like looks like a hymn bros. You'd be like what happened? What happened? Yeah. Then they're like if someone has like you know like a white dad or whatever you're like oh I can't see the legacy of like like a white guy being like you know like kid come on around with me and then you yeah like you don't
Speaker 3
really.

S3E44: Him-bro Asians with Amy X. Wang (New York Times Magazine)

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